On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 00:10, Grover, Andrew wrote:> In order to solve this, we are considering releasing the Linux version of> the interpreter under a dual license. This would allow direct incorporation> of changes. Any patches submitted against the ACPI core code would> implicitly be allowed to be used by us in a non-GPL context. This is already> done elsewhere in the Linux kernel source by the PCMCIA code, for example.

I think this is an extremely good idea. I certainly would have noproblem contributing cleanup/fixes to the project under those terms. Andif I did something large and mega cool with ACPI I can still GPL it onlyand you can still ignore it 8)

There is a tradition of contributing patches back under the license theproject you are contributing to used (and ACPI is certainly big enoughto be 'a project' not just a patch)